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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 28, 20117 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 28, 2011, 4:06 AM EST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 28, 2011, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 2011, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 28, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 28, 2011, 6:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 72 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

865 
WWUS82 KJAX 280906
RFWJAX

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
406 AM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-282300-
/O.UPG.KJAX.FW.A.0014.110128T1700Z-110128T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KJAX.FW.W.0013.110128T1700Z-110128T2300Z/
HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY-
ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-
406 AM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS
EVENING DUE TO LOW RH VALUES AND STRONG WINDS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A RED
FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST
THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

THIS AFTERNOON...DRY AIR OVER THE AREA WILL ALLOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY VALUES TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT WITH WINDS OF 15 MPH AND
GUSTY AT TIMES. MINIMUM VALUES NEAR 30-35 PERCENT ARE FORECAST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE
GROWTH POTENTIAL.

&&

$$

ECZ
1 follow-up statement
492 
WWUS82 KJAX 282307
RFWJAX

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
607 PM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-290015-
/O.EXP.KJAX.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-110128T2300Z/
HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY-
ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-
607 PM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 8:59 PM ESTFrost AdvisoryJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Union11 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2011Every red flag warning in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.